Economics of industrial organization

Food and food markets still enjoy a pivotal role in the world economy and the international food industry is moving towards greater consolidation and globalization, with increased vertical integration and changes to market structure.

South Korea is one of the rare countries that has experienced political/industrial democratization and economic development simultaneously in a relatively short period.

Beginning with a detailed discussion of the World Trade Organisation and the Uruguay Round and its achievements, this book delves into the causal factors behind the failure to launch the new round of multilateral trade negotiations in Seattle in December 1999.

While women's cricket, and women's sport in general, has gained enormously in popularity in terms of both spectators and TV audiences, comparatively little is known about it and its participants, and there are few, if any, quantitative assessments of the game.

This book, originally published in 1984 by a group of leading international commentators on the oil market and major corporate figures int eh market, investigates the underlying forces determining the oil market in the 1970s and 80s.

This book explores the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure in 'left-behind places'.

The book is an exhaustive assessment of the innovative farmer producer companies or co-operative companies in India based on 23 case studies of such companies, including all-women member PCs, across four states of India.

Lean Manufacturing concepts are being applied to a variety of industries.

This book provides an in-depth understanding of key variables that play a significant role at the various stages of the innovation process, leading to successful commercialisation of products and services.

China is well-known as the largest recipient of foreign direct investment among developing countries.

Does Information Technology matter?

Human capital appears to be at the core of business strategies helping firms to recover from the catastrophic effects of COVID19 and bounce back effectively.

Technological change is not only a determinant of growth but is also a pivotal factor in international competition and the modernization of an economy.

First published in 1989, Russia's 'Age of Silver' represents a major contribution to the history of the international economy during the eighteenth century, challenging old prejudices and establishing the importance of Russian precious-metal production.

This collection of edited papers, first published in 1990, has two broad sets of objectives.

Originally published in 1970.

Systematic analysis of the determinants of climate policy durability, combining state-of-the-art policy theories with empirical accounts of landmark political events

From the few tickets that were sold by Alaska Airlines and former British Midland in December 1995 via the industry's first airline booking engine websites, global online travel has grown to generate today more than half a trillion dollars in annual revenue.

Brings economic regulation to life by tracing theoretical insights through to real-world applications in eight essential regulated sectors.

This title was first published in 2001.

Processes of multi-scalar regional urbanization are occurring worldwide.

This book builds an information platform on China's industrial competitiveness, providing scientific design and application case studies for integrated analysis and decision-making facilities and mechanisms for enterprises, industries, financial institutions and governments, which can make up for the lack of adequate information in China's market operations, especially the problems of duplicate construction and vicious competition aggravated by the lack of systematically processed industrial information.

Damiano Bruno Silipo In the 1990s the Italian banking system underwent profound normative, institutional and structural changes.

What are the determinants of company performance?

This volume, originally published in 1997, examines the combined effect of financial instability and industrial restructuring on postwar economic growth and recession in the US.

Ship management is a worldwide activity.

This book provides a methodology for the analysis of oligopolistic markets from an equilibrium viewpoint, considering competition within and between groups of firms.

Industrial Action (1976), written by an experienced active trade unionist, brings valuable real-world examples to an examination of the many facets of trade union organising.

Provides theoretical and applied contributions connected by the methodological approach to the use of general equilibrium model.

Are we doomed because of the new digital technologies used in workspaces?

The demands placed on land, water, energy and other natural resources are exacerbated as the world population continues to increase together with the expectations of economic growth.

This book, originally published in 1995 is a study of crisis management in the electricity supply industry during the 20th century.

Economically and politically, North Sea oil very quickly became of vital importance to Britain.

Economic Models for Industrial Organization focuses on the specification and estimation of econometric models for research in industrial organization.

Health Economics: An International Perspective is the only textbook to provide a truly international, comparative treatment of health economics.

Shows how cultural factors have influenced the development of competition law in China, Japan and Korea.

This book reframes the purpose of infrastructure from being an input to economic growth to becoming a major instrument in reducing socio-economic inequalities in both industrialized and developing countries.

Originally published in 1968, this book was one of the first full-scale published studies of the principles of investment planning and of the structure of marginal costs in a public enterprise.

Survival and thriving in today's business environment require companies to continuously strive for operational excellence at all levels of the organization.

The theory of the firm did not exist, in any serious manner, until around 1970.

This book aims to shed light on why it is that so many well-meaning initiatives and government white papers have failed to have the expected impact in transforming the UK construction industry.

This book is an authentic historical document, supported by extensive analytical information, in which former Fiat top manager Giorgio Garuzzo passionately recounts his experience within Fiat between 1976 and 1996.

In this wide ranging exposition of the various economic theories of technological change, Stanislaw Gomulka relates them to rates of growth experienced by different economies in both the short and the long term.

The book explores, for India and other developing countries, the potential role the organized manufacturing sector could play as an engine of growth.

Holistic in approach and rooted in the real world Ecological Economics and Industrial Ecology presents a new way of looking at environmental policy; exploring the relationship between ecological economics and industrial ecology.

'Jha is the right scholar and economist to take readers through the development of the Indian economy.

This book examines the development of big business in Russia since the onset of market oriented reform in the early 1990s.